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The Saints' Everlasting Rest
The saints everlasting rest, or, A treatise of the blessed state of the saints in their enjoyment of God in glory wherein is showed its excellency and certainty, the misery of those that lose it, the way to attain it, and assurance of it, and how to live in the continual delightful forecasts of it and now published by Richard Baxter ...The saints everlasting rest, or, A treatise of the blessed state of the saints in their enjoyment of God in glory wherein is shewed its excellency and certainty, the misery of those that lose it, the way to attain it, and assurance of it, and how to live in the continual delightful forecasts of it and now published by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed by Rob. White for Thomas Underhil and Francis Tyton, 1650
THE SAINTS Everlasting REST. PART. III. › Chapter 6 › Section 26
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3 Quest. What manner of persons should these be in holy diligence, who have been so long convinced of the evil of laziness? and have confessed on their knees a hundred and a hundred times, both in public and in private? and have told God in prayer, how unexcuseably they have herein offended? Should they thus confess their sin, and yet commit it? as if they told God what they would do, as well as what they have done?
3 Quest. What manner of persons should these be in holy diligence, who have been so long convinced of the evil of laziness? and have confessed on their knees a hundred and a hundred times, both in publique and in private? and have told God in prayer, how unexcuseably they have herein offended? Should they thus confess their sin, and yet commit it? as if they told God what they would do, as well as what they have done?
4 Quest. What manner of persons should those be in painful Godliness, who have bound themselves to God by so many Covenants as we have done? and in special have covenanted so oft to be more painful and faithful in his service? At every Sacrament; on many days of Humiliation and Thanksgiving; in most of our deep distresses and dangerous sicknesses; we are still ready to […] our neglects, and to engage our selves, if God will but try […] trust us once again, how diligent and laborious we will be, and how we will improve our time, and reprove offenders, and watch over our selves, and ply our work, and do him more service in a day then we did in a month: The Lord pardon our perfidious Covenant-breaking! and grant that our own Engagements may not condemn us.
4 Quest. What manner of persons should those be in painful Godliness, who have bound themselves to God by so many Covenants as we have done? and in special have covenanted so oft to be more painful and faithful in his service? At every Sacrament; on many days of Humiliation and Thanksgiving; in most of our deep distresses and dangerous sicknesses; we are still ready to 〈…〉 our neglects, and to engage our selves, if God will but try trust us once again, how diligent and laborious we will be, and how we will improve our time, and reprove offenders, and watch over our selves, and ply our work, and do him more service in a day then we did in a moneth: The Lord pardon our perfidious Covenant-breaking! and grant that our own Engagements may not condemn us.